the staff carriage of the french marshal ferdinand foch was delivered to the campiène forest from them. it was here that germany signed the first treaty of compiegne in 1918. armistice and thereby admitted defeat in the first world war. now hitler has prepared exactly the same fate for france. year, why such a shameful defeat of the french army, and yet the french group was anglo-french, it was larger than in the army, it was well armed, they had an excellent military-industrial complex, in particular, by the way, marshal wrote very well about this pétain, he wrote that the defeat of france is the reason for the general sloppiness of the french, the general reluctance, inability to fight for the interests of the country, unwillingness fight, which is why the french army suffered such a crushing defeat precisely because... it was internally not ready to fight, unlike the germans. in june 1940, france descended into chaos. millions of panic-stricken people fled from the cities following the defeated army. russian emigrant writer roman gul, who lived at that time in the rural outback of